Activist Organizations
Santa Cruz is an activist nirvana. If you’re looking to get involved in a social issue and can’t find a group working on it here, it probably doesn’t exist. Fuel your sense of community by getting involved!
Check out this list of local non-profits working to make a positive difference:
Transition Santa Cruz: www.transitionsc.org
Organic Farming Research Foundation: ofrf.org
Save our Shores: www.saveourshores.org
Fishwise: www.fishwise.org
Slow Food Santa Cruz: www.slowfoodsantacruz.com
Resource Conservation District of SC County: www.rcdsantacruz.org
Pachamama Alliance: www.pachamama.org
Pluck Flastic: www.pluckfastic.org
Ecology Action: www.ecoact.org
People Power: www.nvcsantacruz.org
Santa Cruz Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF): www.wilpf.got.net
Resource Center for Non-Violence: www.nvcsantacruz.org
Barrios Unidos: www.barriosunidos.net
YES!: www.yesworld.org
FoodWhat?!: www.foodwhat.org
Second Harvest Food Bank: www.thefoodbank.org
Homeless Garden Project: www.homelessgardenproject.org
Lightfood Industries: www.lightfootind.com
Sierra Club Santa Cruz County Group: ventana.sierraclub.org/santacruz/home.html
Ecological Landscaping Association: www.ecolandscaping.org
SC Community Water Coalition: www.watersavingtips.org
SC Desal Alternatives: www.desalalternatives.org
100 Women Who Care Santa Cruz: www.100wwc.org/sc
Santa Cruz County Meals on Wheels: www.communitybridges.org/meals.htm
M.O.M.S. Moms Offering Moms Support: www.momsclub.org
Environmental Cleanup Coalition: www.gyrecleanup.org
Island Conservation: www.IslandConservationsociety.com
Valley Women’s Club of the San Lorenzo Valley: www.vwcweb.org
Indy Bay: www.indybay.org
Subrosa Community Space: www.subrosaproject.org
Surfrider Foundation: www.surfridersantacruz.org
Seymour Marine Discovery Center: www2.ucsc.edu/seymourcenter
Trips for Kids Santa Cruz: www.tripsforkidssantacruz.org
Friends of Arana Gulch: http://members.cruzio.com/~arana/
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